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by the Deputy Senior Home Help Organiser, who also attended the
Annual Weekend School of the Institute of Home Help Organisers
at the Froebel Institute, London in September.
Training provided by Home Help Organisers
Talks have been given by the Senior Organisers to Student
Health Visitors, Nurses, Social Welfare Officers and Children's
Officers, and some have accompanied the Organisers on home
visits, in order to acquaint them with the work of the Home Helps
and to show them their responsibilities towards the sick and aged,
and in the care of children.
Training by Home Helps
Case conferences, in which the Senior Organisers take part, are
held to discuss the problems of families with deteriorating standards
in the home. Where considered to be of benefit, a specially selected
Home Help is sent in daily for three months to the family to train
and guide the housewife towards better standards of home management.
Home Visits
Home visits by Organisers during 1968 totalled 9,329.
Maintaining sufficient numbers of Home Helps continues to
be difficult, as in many other parts of the country. However, by
providing minimum essential amounts of service, a great number
of people have been assisted with quite a small staff. Liaison is
maintained with voluntary bodies, youth organisations, etc., and
this is mutually beneficial.
With many more people facing early discharge from hospital,
and geriatric patients staying in their own homes almost to the end
of their lives, a greatly increased demand for the Home Help
Service is envisaged.
VENEREAL DISEASES
Under the National Health Service Act of 1946, diagnosis and
treatment of venereal diseases became a responsibility of the
Regional Hospital Boards and the functions of the local health
authorities were limited to those of prevention. This involves the
tracing of contacts wherever possible, and health education.
There are no treatment centres for these diseases within the
Borough.
I am indebted to the Physicians at the undermentioned treat-